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Tag Archives: Economics

If a Monkey Hoarded More Bananas . . .

January 3, 2022by eightoh9 Leave a comment

2022-01-03 – There’s a meme going around: “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to […]

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Let’s Put Homeless People Into Containers!

April 16, 2015by eightoh9 Leave a comment

2015-04-16 – I’ve been seeing a lot lately about tiny housing. It’s mostly promoted as efficient and good for the ecology (see Small House Society or Tumbleweed Tiny House Company […]

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Don’t Forget About Sunk Costs

December 25, 2014by eightoh9 Leave a comment

2014-25-2014 – Okay. It was a bad year. Lost job. Illness and death in the family. Last kid is off to college and we’re alone. Friend dies. New job is […]

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Couldn’t We Just Pretend We Never Heard of Iraq?

June 24, 2014by eightoh9 Leave a comment

2014-06-24 – It’s hard not to consider sunk costs. Huh? In doing the cost-benefit analysis of starting (or continuing) any venture, we’re told not to consider “sunk costs.” That is, […]

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Let’s Eliminate Entitlements (Not!)

May 29, 2014by eightoh9 Leave a comment

2014-05-29 – We hear a lot about Republican attacks on entitlements. What is it about entitlements that have them so in a huff. An entitlement is wealth that you own. […]

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Sacred Economics

May 20, 2013by eightoh9 Leave a comment

2013-05-20 – I just read a book called Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein. It was recommended to me by my friend […]

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CEOs and Fire-fighters

August 11, 2012by eightoh9 1 Comment

2012-08-11 – What do CEOs and firefighters have in common? If you said they both take big risks, you’d be wrong. Firefighters do take big risks, but CEOs don’t, for […]

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